The fine folks at the FCC were kind enough to provide a user manual as well as a series of photographs. There aren’t any big surprises in the manual. The laptop will have a screen, touchpad and keyboard… just like every other netbook on the market. But the photos include a few shots of the Eee PC 1025C without its cover, so you can take a look at the wireless card, motherboard, and other components.

There also appears to be an empty PCIe card slot. It’s not clear if this space is reserved for future models which may have a 3G or 4G radio or video card.

There are also a few photos of the power adapter — it looks like Asus has done away with the bulky power brick and separate adapter cable for this model. Instead you have a single-piece power adapter which almost looks like something you’d get with a smartphone rather than a laptop.

This won’t the first Asus netbook to come with this sort of charger — the original 7 inch Asus Eee PC 701 netbook had a similar cable. It typically takes longer to charge a laptop using this sort of solution, but since Intel’s Cedar Trail chips should use less power than most older netbook chips, the new charger may be able to provide enough juice.

Interestingly the Asus Eee PC X101 netbook also includes the same 19v, 1.58A power adapter, even though that laptop has an Atom N435 processor which uses more power.

According to Asus, the Eee PC 1025C should get up to 14 hours of battery life. It will support HDMI output and feature 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0, and USB 3.0. The model on display at the FCC has a white lid, but we also expect to see blue and pink models.

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“Intel’s Cedar Trail chips should use less platform than most older netbook chips” neat…. can I buy extra “platform” if the included amount isn’t enough or do I have to hope that the new chips really are easy on the “platform” and that Asus has included enough “platform” to keep me going.

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Considering the last ATOM models to provide around actual 10 hours with a 6 cell were the older DD2 single core ATOM models. To get up to 14 hours with a dual core and full HD performance to boot is a pretty noticeable improvement on run time.

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I am very pleased to see new netbooks using Intel’s up-and-coming Cedar Trail Atoms being made. The Cedar Trail CPU is marginally faster than the Pine Trail (the current generation of Atoms) N570 while using less power (6.5W vs. 8.5W); its GPU is two or three times faster than the N570.

It appears that Intel is still not interested in making a faster Atom chip; they are more interested in lowering the voltage while having the same amount of computing power. The netbook market has lost its momentum and Intel wants to break in to the currently lucrative tablet market.

Since Intel hasn’t really raised the CPU power of their Atoms, there is a niche for “cheap but more powerful than an Atom”; hence the success of the AMD E-350 (as well as the new C-60, which has more power than the C-50 while maintaining the same power used–9W).

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Intel isn’t making its move yet to seriously get into the tablet and mobile markets. It’ll be 2013 when they’ll come out with the 22nm Silvermont that will bring in a complete architectural redesign of the ATOM. For now Cedar Trail is mainly a manufacture shrink to 32nm, otherwise the CPU is still based on the same architecture as Pin Trail and only benefits from the faster default clock speed. The N2600 at 1.66GHz performs around as well as the N550 at 1.5GHz, but the N2600 has a 3.5W max TDP versus the 8.5W max TDP for the N550/N570. The N570 is clocked at 1.66GHz and that compares to the 1.86GHz for the N2800. So performance increase is mainly from the higher clock speed but max TDP only goes up to 6.5W for the N2800. So is still providing more performance while still using less power. The N2600 GMA 3600… Read more »

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This is a really fascinating discussion. I went over to cpubenchmark [dot] net to look up the passmark scores of Intel’s and AMD’s chips. Here are the CPU results: AMD E-350 725 AMD E-450 729 AMD C-60 618 Atom N455 320 Atom N570 645 Atom 2800 (projected) 723 As we can see, the 2800 is a slight improvement over the N570, giving us about the same CPU performance as the E-350/450 (which have about the same CPU performance) Here are the GPU benchmarks: AMD Radeon 6290 (AMD C-60) 190 AMD Radeon 6310 (AMD E-350) 204 AMD Radeon 6320 (AMD E-450) 252 Intel GMA 5310 (Atom N455/570) 69 Assuming that the GPU included with the 2800 is three times as fast as the 5310, it will have roughly the same GPU (as well as CPU) performance as the E-350; not bad for a chip with just over 1/3 the TDP. Looking… Read more »

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Actually that was the old paradigm for Intel. Both Intel and MS set limits upon netbook specification to keep it separate from their higher end products. Since netbooks are sold with very little profit they had to protect their higher end products profit margins. However, that was all back when Intel had no real competition for netbooks. Originally Intel ATOM’s were set on a 5 year product cycle, while their mainstream products were on a 2 year cycle. Cedar Trail is the last of the old paradigm with the intended 5 year cycle. Starting with Silvermont, Intel will completely re-work the ATOM architecture for the first time and move to a full SoC design. While moving to the 2 year product cycle for immediate integration of Intel’s latest technology. The presently being released Medfield for example, which replaces Moorestown, is the first full SoC design from Intel. Right now most… Read more »

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E350/E450 is 18W c50/c60 is 9W

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And you’re point?

Cedar Trail D2700/2600 is 10W, N2800 is 6.5W, and N2600 is just 3.5W… All for their max TDP and actual operation can go even lower.

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Any manufacturers making 10 inch notebooks (ie. non-Atom, non-tablet and non-convertible tablet/notebook) for at most $1200 USD? Or is technology and market not there? Thanks.

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Panasonic has a few models but I believe they cost more than $1200 and they’re thicker than netbooks.

Ivy Bridge will make Ultrabooks a viable market segment but they won’t go smaller than 11.6″. So you probably won’t see a affordable 10″ notebook until 2013-2014.

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I wander how good the performance is compared to the AMD Fusion platform..

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hello someone tried install one slot pci-e in empty slot for test with msata card?? i am looking for one old mother board for solder and msata low price for test…